The Prospects for China's Cluster City Strategy

The Economist recently considered China's efforts to turn itself into a country of 19 super-regions, based around large clusters of cities.

Alain Bertaud of New York University says that, if integrated well, China’s city clusters could, thanks to their size, achieve levels of productivity never seen in other countries. He says it would be comparable to the differences between England and the rest of the world during the Industrial Revolution.